Denial of Cortelyou Resigning to Join Knickerbocker Trust
Washington reports emphatic denial of rumors that Secretary Cortelyou would resign to join a New York financial firm. The White House and Treasury defend his position, while noting he may receive future offers from major banks if he leaves.
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Washington
Mr. Cortelyou
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Treasury
Cortelyou
Nho
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
New York City
Wall Street
Herbert L. Satterlee
J. Pierpont Morgan
Satterlee-Parsons Committee of
Morgan
Sattterlee
Foster Higgins
Charles T. Prarney
Knickerbocker
Certelyou
Corteiyou
Lantry's Mother Saved From Fire at East 46th Street
Police Captain John J. Lantry of the East Side station aided by his nephew rescued his eighty year old mother Catherine Lantry from a blaze on East 46th Street. The fire spread from the floor below and burned her hands before they reached safety on the roof. Most occupants escaped. the fire was extinguished with little damage.
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John J. Lantry
East Sistetree Station
Catherine Lantry
Lantry
East 46Th Street
Mre Lantry
Patrick Cummings
Ohio Nominees Held Up by Ohio Senators
Washington reports Senators Foraker and Dick will block President's federal patronage efforts. Four Ohio post office appointments were rejected, and about twenty-five Ohio nominations sit with the Senate Post Office committee awaiting action.
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Washington
Foraker
Ohio
Senate
Committee On
Messrs. Foraker and
E H Strobel Dies After Illness and Service Abroad
Bangkok reports the death of Edward Henry Strobel general adviser to Siam's government after a long illness. Strobel born 1855 in Charleston served in Harvard Bemis chair before joining Siam 1906 and held posts as American minister to Ecuador and Chile earlier. He died from blood poisoning linked to a bite in Egypt two years earlier.
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Bangkok
Siam
Edward Henry Strobel
Government of
Strobel
Liam Boston
Lindsay Swift
Boston Public Library
E. H. Strobel
Harvard
Egypt
United States
Bemis
Mr. Strobel
Charleston
S. C
Madrid
Washington
Ecuador
Chili
France
Raid on West 4th street gambling den shocks precinct
Captain Horatio Young and three plainclothes men raided a West 4th street gambling house once known as Lou Ludlum’s and later the Pen Club. They seized two roulette tables and equipment, found no occupants, and transported the paraphernalia to the Tenderloin station.
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Horatio Young
Bath Beach
Tenderloin
Barney” Kelleher
West 4Th Street
Captain Young
Lou
Ysaye Stradivarius Stolen During Petersburg Concert
A letter from Mme Ysaye reports the theft of a $10000 Stradivarius from Belgian violinist Ysaye while he played in St Petersburg. He left his double case with both violins unattended on stage. the Strad was taken while he searched for the Guarnerius. Police have no lead yet.
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Mme. Ysaye
Ysaye
St. Petersburg
Copper Mines Cave In Threatens Minas de Rio Tinto Town
Jan 15 report from Minas de Rio Tinto Spain warns of destruction as ground subsides after a section of copper mines caves in. The town evacuates about four hundred houses while the mines employ more than ten thousand people and produce around twenty thousand tons yearly.
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Minas de Rio Tinto
Spain
Woman drugged and robbed at New Rochelle matinee theater
Mrs. Robert Fox of New Rochelle was drugged in a New York theater box by a young woman, robbed of jewelry and cash from a handbag, and left ill. Alice Moran, 17, of The Bronx, arrested after identification by detectives. she faces Jefferson Market court on charges of theft.
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Robert Fox
Sickles Avenue
New Rochelle
Saks
New York
Mrs. Fox
Premier Diamond Mining Plans Dividend Delay Amid Market Slump
Johannesburg reports a global diamond market downturn driven by American financial troubles and European stringency. The Premier Diamond Mining Company delays an $800,000 dividend, retains $1.2 million owed to government, to strengthen the mine and avoid pressuring a weak market. Talks with De Beers to limit output are underway.
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Johannesburg
America
Europe
de Beers
Doctor Chases Thief From Harlem Home Burglary
Dr. Abraham Korn, a Law and Order League vice-president, chased a man from his Madison Avenue home after witnessing him leave with a sealskin coat and an overcoat. The suspect, Frank Gordon, was arrested at East 126th Street station on burglary and grand larceny charges.
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Abraham Korn
Law and Order League of
Harlem
Madison Avenue
Korn
East 126Th Street
Frank Gordon
Dr. Korn
Public Works Chief Stricken With Appendicitis At Home
Frederick C. Stevens head of the State Department of Public Works is at his Albany home diagnosed with appendicitis by his physician Dr. Albert Vander Veer.
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Albany
Frederick C. Stevens
State Department of Public Works
Albert Vander Veer
Standard Oil faces $80 million in extra fines in Chicago cases
United States District Attorney Sims returns from Washington to pursue remaining rebating indictments against Standard Oil and the Chicago & Alton and Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroads. The government seeks $20,000 per count across about four thousand counts, with a possible higher total if the Supreme Court certification accelerates.
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Tribune
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
United States
Sims
Washington
Chicago & Alton
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Oil Company
John S. Miller
Landis
Standard
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Whiting
East St. Louis
Alton
Waybill
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Great Northern Railroad Company
Sage money funds NY tuberculosis campaign start
The Russell Sage Foundation provided initial funding for a statewide anti tuberculosis drive in New York. Robert W. de Forest said the amount is modest and future support will come from local voluntary contributions. Albany hosts campaign headquarters with work modeled on New York Charity Organization Society efforts. Homer Folks leads the State Charities Aid Association team directing investigators and staff.
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New York State
Russell Sage Foundation
Robert W. de Forest
de Forest
Albany
Committee For
New York Charity Organization Society
State Charities Aid Association
Homer Folks
Indiana Game Hunt Turns Out Two Hundred Men
In Petersburg Indiana on January 15 a tiger escaped from a menagerie and roams the county. More than two hundred men and boys armed with revolvers guns and knives joined the hunt. The beast wears a heavy collar and has killed hogs sheep and dogs. Schools are closed and the chase will resume tomorrow.
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Tribune
Petersburg
Ind
Nevada to Seek Troop Retention at Goldfield
A Nevada Senate joint caucus drafted a resolution urging the U S president to keep troops in Goldfield until the state can establish a police force or other means to maintain order. The measure is expected to pass both chambers.
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Carson
Nev
Nevada
Senate
United States
Goldfield
House
Chesebrough's Auto Serves as Ambulance After Boy Run Over
Robert A. Chesebrough of Chesebrough Manufacturing drives his car an ambulance to Harlem Hospital after J Baker, aged 12, was struck on Bradhurst avenue near 142nd street. Chauffeur J Thompson stopped, boy injured slightly. no arrest.
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Robert A. Chesebrough
East 49Th Street
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company
State Street
Standard Oil
J. R. Thompson
West 1A4th
Bradhurst Avenue
John Baker
Harlem
Bennett
Death by own action of George W. Allen Deputy Speaker
Fredericton New Brunswick January fifteenth news reports that George W. Allen Deputy Speaker of the Legislature and MPP for York County and leading attorney shot himself. He was forty nine, son of the late John C. Allen Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.
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Fredericton
N. B
George, W. Allen
York County
Allen
John C. Allen
Supreme Court of
New Brunswick
Gonaives Struck by Quake and Waves in Haiti
A strong earthquake hit Gonaives sixty five miles northwest of Port au Prince with aftershocks continuing. A tidal wave followed the initial quake collapsing several buildings and causing extensive damage in the Haitian town.
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Haytian Town
Port-au-Prince
Hayti
Gonaives
Gonaives Haiti Suffers Break in Communications
Reported from the Haitian town of Gonaives indicates a break in communication with the outside world after a destructive event. The city, a thriving port with a bishop's see and about 18,000 residents, exports coffee and cotton and imports dry goods and provisions from the United States. No loss of life has yet been reported.
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Herrmann
Adder
Jolibert
Gonaives
Haitian Republic
United States
Crawford's Body Found Near Fort Foote
Washington reports the body of Lieutenant John W. Crawford private secretary to Admiral Dewey was found below Fort Foote on the Maryland side of the Potomac. He disappeared November 22 leaving a note blaming financial troubles. Decomposition hindered details but clothing cards identified the body. Crawford, from Vineland New Jersey, rose to lieutenant despite no formal naval training.
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Washington
John W. Crawford
Admiral Dewey
Fort Foote
Maryland
Potomac
Alexandria
Crawford
Virginia
Vineland
N. J
Boston Unemployed Seek Work Chief Appeal
About five hundred unemployed men gathered on the Common to hear Mayor Hibbard's reply amid Boston's financial strain. Morrison I Swift led the delegation pressing for state city job programs, a $500000 relief appropriation, and rent relief, while Governor Guild offered limited assistance and urged seeking work in smaller cities.
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Boston
Hibbard
Morrison I. Swift
State House
Governor Guild
Mr. Swift
Swift
Guild
Tragic Double Poisoning Suicide In St Louis Home
Mrs Camille Jacobs wife of Leo Jacobs general manager of Acme Cement Plaster mills poisoned her two children Samuel fourteen months Edwin five years with prussic acid and then killed herself. She bought the poison and trapped herself with the boys after dismissing the servant. Her husband was away at Laramie inspecting mills and she had suffered melancholia for over a year.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Camille Jacobs
Leo Jacobs
Acme Cement Plaster Company
Samuel
Edwin
Laramie
Wyo
New York City
Canada’s Emigration Question Settled with Japan
Tokyo January 15. The Canadian emigration issue is settled. The Japanese government has received notice that Rodolphe Lemieux’s report is satisfactory to Canada. Ottawa will accept an oral promise to restrict laborer emigration, and will rely on Japan to enforce the memorandum. Only memoranda exchanges remain.
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Tokio
Rodolphe Lemieux
Five Drowned While Skating Near Connellsville
A skating party at the Jimtown reservoir near Connellsville Pennsylvania ended in tragedy as five of six participants drowned. The deceased are John Luxner nineteen George Cochran twenty one Frank Cochran Jr seventeen William Fulmer twenty three and Elizabeth Fulmer seventeen. The lone survivor is not named in the report. The incident occurred January 15 and authorities investigated the drowning.
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Connellsville
Jimtown
John Luxner
George Cochran
Frank Cochran, Jr
William Fulmer
Elizabeth Fulmer
Roosevelt Praised At Bryan Dinner In Lincoln
Nearly thirteen hundred Bryan supporters attended a dollar Democratic dinner at the Auditorium in Lincoln with many more as spectators. The event was framed as an endorsement of Bryan's candidacy while speakers praised Roosevelt and offered kind remarks about Republican leaders. Ad for Haan's Restaurant follows.
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Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
Auditerium
Bryan
Roosevelt
Bryan Campaign Sees Fresh Shift Amid Local Opposition
Charles F Murphy warned James J Hagen not to speak for Bryan at Cooper Union. Tammany Hall stays unpledged and will not back Bryan there. Several officials including Sulzer and Zucca cancel appearances. The program proceeds with Jefferson Davis and T B Gore as speakers, while Walker presides and notes targets McCarren and Conners. Bryan plans events in Philadelphia Paterson Newark Buffalo and New York dinners through February 4.
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Charles F. Murphy
James J. Hagen
Tammany
Bryan
Cooper Union
Mr. Murphy
Hagen
Tammany Hall
Denver
Mr. Hagen
New York
Harry W. Walker
Florida
James J. Hill
Conners
Hill
Johnson
Minnesota
Bob” Davis
Hudson County
James Smith
Newark
Lodge
New Jersey
Passaic
Paterson
Smith
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
James M. Guffey
Democratic National Committee For
William Jennings Bryan
William J. Conners
Florida Everglades
Norman E Mack
Erie County
Mr. Mack
Erie Democratic County Committee
Mr. Bryan
Buffalo
Hotel Iroquois
The
Missouri Society
Hotel Plaza
Married in a hurry by a traveling inspector and oilman's daughter
An drew M. Lockridge, traveling inspector for United States Steel, and Miss Eta R. Hartnell, daughter of a Salinas oilman, wed by Rev. Henry Marsh Warren at his home on West 94th Street. The couple, both alumni of Penn and Stanford, plan a Chicago and South America honeymoon and deny elopement.
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Andrew M. Lockridge
United States Steel Corporation
Eta R. Hartnell
Salinas
Cal
Henry Marsh Warren
West 94Th Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Leland Stanford Junior University
Lockridge
New York
Aged cellist commits suicide in Omaha home
Charles Baetens eighty two year old cellist and composer of international note shot and killed himself at his Omaha residence. native of The Hague he studied under Beriat and Fetis and gained European fame as violin instructor and composer. He came to America with Theodore Thomas and contributed to the Centennial Exposition program.
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the Tribune
Omaha
Charles Baetens
Theodore Thomas
Baetens
Hague
William of
Germany
Brussels
Charles Beriat
Fetis
Europe
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Maple Leaf Mills Fire Destroys Kenora Elevator
Fire in Kenora Ontario destroyed the Maple Leaf Mills owned by Hedley Shaw Company. The elevator holding more than 300000 bushels of wheat burned. Loss estimated at 1 million dollars, insured.
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Kenora
Ont
Maple Leaf
Hedley-Shaw Company
Incendiary Fire Destroys Boston Church
An incendiary blaze tonight destroyed the old Second Congregational Church in Boston, which had just celebrated its 11th anniversary. The report notes the fire as deliberate with telegraphic confirmation to The Tribune.
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Tribune
Boston
Second Congregational Caurery
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